2017

Ronald Eugene Narmi was born in Council Bluffs on June 27, 1933. Growing up he loved to build model airplanes.  As a boy in WWII he watched Army Air Force glider pilots train at Eppley Airfield in Omaha while standing…

Stephen is best known as the Guidance Officer in NASA’s Mission Control that saved the first landing on the moon. Stephen G. Bales was born in Ottumwa, Iowa on October 7, 1942.  His interest and career in space were most…

James McClain was born at Des Moines on March 10, 1923 and attended high school at Waterloo followed by Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps.  After completing Navigator training, he…